Mark Leavenworth became the pastor of Waterbury’s Congregational church
in 1740 and lived on the north side of the Green. He owned two slaves, Peg and
Phillis, in the 1790s. Peg died in 1806. In 1810, Leavenworth's house was inherited
by Dr. Edward Field, who had married into the family.
Field tore down the Leavenworth home in 1816, replacing it with the house and
office seen in this photograph. Phillis continued to work as a slave, and then
as a servant, for Field until her death in 1821.